SHEET FEEDING DEVICE AND IMAGE FORMING APPARATUS INCORPORATING THE SAME

    公开(公告)号:US20240300757A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-12

    申请号:US18443326

    申请日:2024-02-16

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06

    摘要: A sheet feeding device includes a body, a sheet tray including a contacted portion, a conveyance roller pair, and a contact-separation mechanism. The conveyance roller pair in the body includes one roller and another roller. The contact-separation mechanism includes a spring and a movable part. The movable part pushed by the spring in a first direction has a contact portion and an elongated guide. The contact portion contacts the contacted portion in response to an insertion of the sheet tray into the body to move the movable part in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The elongated guide changes a position of said another roller in a third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions with respect to the one roller according to a movement of the movable part in the first direction and second direction.

    Sheet feeding device and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US12037214B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-07-16

    申请号:US17740172

    申请日:2022-05-09

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06 B65H3/52 B65H5/06

    摘要: A sheet feeding device includes a tray, a feeding member, a conveying member, a separation member, a transmission unit, and a biasing member. The separation member abuts the conveying member and separates a single sheet from sheets fed by the feeding member. The transmission unit includes first and second portions respectively having first and second transmission surfaces. Where the first and second transmission surfaces abut each other, the first portion drives the second portion that drives the feeding member. The biasing member biases either of the first and second portions so that the first and second transmission surfaces move away from each other. The conveying member is driven in a state where the separation member abuts the conveying member and the feeding member abuts the sheet stacked on the tray and is stopped. Thereafter, the first and second transmission surfaces abut each other, and the feeding member is driven.

    MEDIUM CONVEYING APPARATUS FOR DETECTING A FOLDING OF A MEDIUM

    公开(公告)号:US20230406653A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-21

    申请号:US18240296

    申请日:2023-08-30

    申请人: PFU LIMITED

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06 B65H7/14

    摘要: A medium conveying apparatus includes a first optical sensor located on an upper part of the housing and in a central part of the housing in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveying direction, a second optical sensor located on an upper part of the housing and on a side of the first optical sensor in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction, and a processor to detect a folding of a medium based on the first signal or the second signal, and stop feeding of the medium by the feed roller in accordance with a detection result of the folding of the medium. The first light emitter emits first light toward a downstream side of the medium in the medium conveying direction, and the second light emitter emits second light toward an upstream side of the medium in the medium conveying direction.

    Feeding device and image forming apparatus

    公开(公告)号:US11846891B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-12-19

    申请号:US17398006

    申请日:2021-08-10

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06 G03G15/00

    摘要: A feeding device includes a feeding device body of which a downstream end portion in a feeding direction, in which a material to be fed is fed, is mounted on a mounting portion, and that is openable and closable between a closed position where an upstream end portion is positioned above the downstream end portion and an open position where the upstream end portion is positioned on a side of the downstream end portion, a stacked portion that is provided on the feeding device body and on which the material to be fed is stacked in the open position, a detection unit that has a detection member hanging down to a downstream end portion of the stacked portion in the open position, moves to a downstream side in the feeding direction as the detection member is pressed by a downstream end portion of the material to be fed stacked on the stacked portion, and detects a stack of the materials to be fed on the stacked portion, and a restriction unit that restricts movement of the detection member to the downstream side in the feeding direction in the closed position.

    Medium conveying apparatus for detecting a folding of a medium

    公开(公告)号:US11772918B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-10-03

    申请号:US17721111

    申请日:2022-04-14

    申请人: PFU LIMITED

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06 B65H7/14

    摘要: A medium conveying apparatus includes a first optical sensor located on an upper part of the housing and in a central part of the housing in a direction perpendicular to a medium conveying direction, a second optical sensor located on an upper part of the housing and on a side of the first optical sensor in the direction perpendicular to the medium conveying direction, and a processor to detect a folding of a medium based on the first signal or the second signal, and stop feeding of the medium by the feed roller in accordance with a detection result of the folding of the medium. The first light emitter emits first light toward a downstream side of the medium in the medium conveying direction, and the second light emitter emits second light toward an upstream side of the medium in the medium conveying direction.

    RECORDING APPARATUS
    7.
    发明申请
    RECORDING APPARATUS 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20190016163A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-01-17

    申请号:US16030711

    申请日:2018-07-09

    IPC分类号: B41J23/02 B41J11/00

    摘要: There is provided a recording apparatus including: a recording unit that performs recording on a medium transported in a first direction; a medium feeding unit that is positioned in a second direction opposite to the first direction of the recording unit, includes a medium supporting unit; and a medium reversing unit that reverses the medium transmitted in the second direction after the recording of the recording unit, and transmits the medium to the first direction, in which the medium feeding unit includes a first guide unit and forms a first guide surface in the downward slope toward the first direction, and a power transmission unit that transmits a driving power from a power source of the medium reversing unit to the medium reversing unit, and at least a part of the first guide unit in a vertical direction overlaps with the power transmission unit.

    RECORDING APPARATUS
    8.
    发明申请
    RECORDING APPARATUS 审中-公开

    公开(公告)号:US20180346267A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-12-06

    申请号:US15987988

    申请日:2018-05-24

    IPC分类号: B65H3/06

    摘要: A recording apparatus includes a return member switchable between a first orientation in which a portion of the return member overlaps a feed roller in a side view of a medium feeding path and a second orientation in which the return member is turned toward a downstream side in a medium feeding direction and does not overlap the feed roller. The return member changes an orientation thereof from the second orientation to the first orientation, thereby returning a medium to an upstream side in the medium feeding direction. When a transport roller disposed downstream of the feed roller is driven in reverse to return the medium to the upstream side and position the medium at a recording start position, the return member takes a third orientation in which the return member is raised toward the upstream side further than in the first orientation.